Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz denied an alleged mortar attack Sunday on Kuwait, saying the reports of an Iraqi shell being fired at Kuwait are part of the lies the Kuwaitis are trying to spread to damage Iraq,” according to AFP.

"The Kuwaitis always spread such lies and allegations to harm Iraq and this did not surprise me," said Aziz.

A spokesman for the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observers Mission (UNIKOM), Daljeet Bagga, had told the agency that a mortar bomb had fired from Iraqi territory on a Kuwaiti border post.